Month: December 2019

Rudy Giuliani probably can’t explain this one away with a butt dial. Throughout 2019, President Trump’s lawyer — who doesn’t have a White House job — received multiple calls from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, phone records obtained by the House Intelligence Committee reveal. It’s unclear exactly who from the office was…

Chicago’s top cop responds to his firing after he’s found asleep in squad car originally appeared on abcnews.go.com Chicago’s ousted police chief broke his silence on Tuesday, a day after the city’s mayor revealed that he’d been fired over “ethical lapses.” Mayor Lori Lightfoot fired Superintendent Eddie Johnson on Monday, less than a month before…

CHICAGO (AP) — Ousted Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said Tuesday that he didn’t “intentionally mislead or deceive” anyone about the mid-October night he was found sleeping behind the wheel of his SUV. Johnson, 59, released a statement through his attorney a day after Mayor Lori Lightfoot fired him for “ethical lapses,” just weeks before…

Key point: Tehran’s new “stealth” fighter is anything but. Tensions have escalated in the Persian Gulf region in the aftermath of U.S. president Donald Trump’s decision unilaterally to withdraw the United States from the agreement limiting Iran’s nuclear program. The U.S. military has implicated Iranian agents in several summer 2019 attacks on civilian ships sailing near…

By Se Young Lee and David Brunnstrom BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China warned on Wednesday that U.S. legislation calling for a tougher response to Beijing’s treatment of its Uighur Muslim minority will affect bilateral cooperation, clouding prospects for a near-term deal to end a trade war. Expectations of a quick deal had receded already, after U.S.…

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – From his field of aubergines in the Gaza Strip Massud Habib gazes at the nearby Israeli border security barrier, squinting in the late autumn sun. For four years, he said, Israeli planes regularly sprayed herbicides along the border which scorched his crops, and he fears it could resume at…

Key point: Nuclear weapons ensure everyone loses. How much of a threat do Russia’s emerging 5th-generation stealth fighter, nuclear arsenal, high-tech air defenses, anti-satellite weapons, conventional army and submarines pose to NATO and the U.S.? Current tensions between Russia and NATO are leading many to carefully assess this question and examine the current state of weaponry…

By Phil Stewart and Robin Emmott LONDON (Reuters) – Seventy years since its Cold War-era founding as a transatlantic alliance focused on Moscow, NATO is expanding its gaze toward the increasingly muscular challenge posed by China. But it’s unclear, even to diplomats within the 29-member military alliance, whether NATO is up to the task —…

US forces are thought to have killed a senior jihadist leader in northern Syria using a rarely deployed “Ninja” missile which attacks targets with precision sword-like blades. The Hellfire missile, or AGM-114R9X, which has a set of six folding blades instead of a warhead for minimum collateral damage, is believed to have been used to…

An ethical hacker hired as IT advisor at Andheri-Seepz development commissioner’s (DC) office has been arrested for hacking into the SEZ’s server 22 times and stealing data related to policy making after his one-year contract ended last year. Though Binod Agarwal, (36) a retired Navy personnel, has claimed that he only wanted to pressure the…